A landmark deal to protect the world's most threatened species and environments has been struck after a marathon United Nations meeting.
Telegraph.co.uk, By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, 30 Oct 2010
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| Landmark UN Nagoya biodiversity deal agreed to save natural world (Photo: WWF) |
Delegates from more than 190 countries meeting in Nagoya, Japan, agreed a programme to conserve global biodiversity and the natural habitats that support the most threatened animals and plants.
The last minute deal at the UN Convention on Biodiversity sets out 20 goals to be implemented by in the next 10 years to help tackle the mass extinction of species around the world.
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They include increasing the area of protected land in the world from 12.5% to 17%, and the area of protected oceans from 1% to 10%, by 2020.
Talks had been going on at the Convention for two weeks before the agreement was made.
After late-night negotiations, the conference also adopted a new treaty, the Nagoya Protocol, to manage the world's genetic resources and share the multi-billion benefits with developing nations.
Jim Leape, director general of WWF International, said: "This agreement reaffirms the fundamental need to conserve nature as the very foundation of our economy and our society.
"Governments have sent a strong message that protecting the health of the planet has a place in international politics and countries are ready to join forces to save life on Earth."
UK Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman, who was in Nagoya, said: "These have been long and hard negotiations, but we have successfully achieved a new global plan to help protect our natural environment.
"We have also agreed a historic protocol which has been 18 years in the making, establishing a regime where developing countries will allow access to their genetic and natural resources in return for a share of the benefits for their use.
"The new agreement states we will take effective and urgent action to halt the loss of habitats and species in order to ensure that by 2020 our natural environment is resilient and can continue to provide the essential services that we would otherwise take for granted.
"This will secure the planet's variety of life, our wellbeing and help eradicate poverty."
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